I'm searching for information about my great-great grandfather, Michael Berney. He lived in Myshall, Carlow. Two of his sons, Peter(my great grandfather), and Thomas, emigrated to the United States; their brother Patrick emigrated to Canada. At least two sisters emigrated to the US as well. I am hoping to find more information about Michael, and other family members.
KateBerney
Sunday 6th Mar 2022, 04:06PMMessage Board Replies
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You may already be aware of them, but there are records for what may be your family in the FamilySearch database [https://www.familysearch.org]. If you search there, you can find Peter Berney under ID number MGV1-9LT, and can access the records for the others easily through that record, as you will see. Peter is shown as being born in Myshall on 12 Dec 1817, with his father being named Michael and his mother listed as Brigid Whitty. The two brothers you mentioned, Patrick and Thomas, are both shown, as are two sisters named Mary and Annie.
In each record, at the right hand side of the screen, you can see the screen names of those who have created or modified the record, and can send them private messages, so you might be able to get more info by contacting them (and perhaps also locate some relatives that way). There is a James_A_K shown as the main person providing info in those records, so you might want to contact him.
FamilySearch is operated by the LDS church, and is free to use. You have to create an account to use the database, but they don’t ask for much personal info, and no missionaries will contact you or anything like that. The database does not have separate family trees, and is essentially one huge tree of linked records, in which there is a single record for each person, with a unique identification number (although sometimes people unknowingly create duplicate records for the same person, which you can merge when you spot them).
Myshall is a civil parish (and an electoral district) in County Carlow, and you can see more info about it at this link: https://www.townlands.ie/carlow/myshall2/
At that site, you'll see a list of the townlands within the parish, with clickable links to more info. Note that there is also a townland called Myshall within the parish.
Myshall is located in a Catholic parish of the same name (which is not always the case), and you can access the parish records at this link: https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0719
The baptismal records only appear to go back to 1822, so you will presumably not find Peter there, but you may be able to locate the records for Mary and Annie, who were apparently born in 1822 and 1824, and their baptismal records may tell you the name of the townland in which the family lived.
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